Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 23:10:25 -0600 From: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need the tester for gdesklets-starterbar on FreeBSD 4.x only.. Message-ID: <opr4mrbngr8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <1078895084.40160.33.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <opr4kg26zb8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> <1078893407.40160.11.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <opr4mqunwr8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> <1078895084.40160.33.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:04:44 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke
<marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 00:00, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>> On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 23:36:48 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke
>> <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 18:34, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> I need someone to do the test deskutils/gdesklets-starterbar on
>> FreeBSD
>> >> 4.x, which Joe gave me the headup that misc/ossp-uuid went in the
>> ports
>> >> tree last month. The FreeBSD 5.x already has uuidgen, but not in
>> 4.x. I
>> >> almost forgot about it, so now I have finally do it.
>> >>
>> >> Here's an attach of gdesklets-starterbar.diff.
>> >
>> > Looks good except it looks like you have an errant 'i' in your
>> > pkg-message.
>>
>> Insterest, not sure where 'i' came from. Heh, thanks for notice and I
>> will
>> remove it.
>>
>> > Also, since you're generating your pkg-message on the fly,
>> > please stick pkg-message into files/ and reference it from ${FILESDIR}
>> > (the way it is now will cause breakage).
>>
>> It doesn't break so far, pav added in one of my gdesklet port and I
>> followed. So, do you still want me to change other gdesklets ports
>> (maybe
>> two or three) too? One thing that I don't understand what you mean by
>> 'reference it from ${FILESDIR}'?
>
> Yes you will need to change all ports. Referring to a file by relative
> path is almost always a bad idea. You can do something like I did in
> security/pam_ldap where you keep the file in the same directory, or
> something like net-mgmt/cricket where the pkg-message is processed from
> ${FILESDIR}.
Ok, I will fix up the gdesklets-starterbar and send it to PR, then create
a diff with few ports in it to fix that pkg-message and send it to PR.
Thanks for take the look!
Cheers,
Mezz
> Joe
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mezz
>>
>> > Joe
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Thanks!
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Mezz
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